Whether that means this year’s Final Four will go on forever, playing on an interminable loop that will prevent CBS from ever getting to air the Masters and the next episode of “The Good Wife,” or whether we’ll simply stop at some point next Monday night and declare everything a tie — that part remains to be seen. That is where the suspense lies.

OK, we’re not serious here. Somebody will end up with the trophy. Whoever that somebody is seems almost certain to break some of the significant precedents that recently have led to NCAA championships.

Since 2003, if you have not ranked among the top 25 teams nationally in offensive and defensive efficiency, you have not been able to win the national title. Only one of the Final Four teams, Florida, meets that standard this season. Check it: Florida is 18th in offense, first on defense; Wisconsin is fourth and 45th; Kentucky is ninth and 40th; UConn is only 50th on offense but 10th on D.

However, since 1987 if you did not feature a future first-round NBA draft choice in your starting lineup, you have not been able to win the national title. And Florida almost certainly does not fit that category this season. But Kentucky surely does (too many to count) and Wisconsin probably does (forward Sam Dekker and, presuming the scouts have eyes, center Frank Kaminsky).

So we’ve got a problem here.

I’m not certain who solves it. But it is our duty to rank the Final Four teams in order of which is most likely to win the title and which is least, and so we shall persevere.

1. Florida

Why they’ll win: The Gators arrive on the 30-game winning streak. This does not overwhelm the process, because Wichita State carried a 35-gamer into its meeting with Kentucky and left with a one-game losing streak. The only game in any streak that really matters is the one you’re playing. The Gators are better at understanding that than anyone in this particular college season.

Save for that dreadful performance at home against Auburn, how often have we seen them bluff their way through a game? They understand they must play with hunger in order to be great, and so they do. They are efficient on offense, but mostly because they wreck you with their defense. Their offense is heavily reliant on getting at least some points from offensive mistakes: either turnovers or forced shots. They can be zoned, but they’ve been fortunate to avoid such tactics in the tournament and won’t have to deal much with that here, if it all.

Defensively they are destructive. Efficiency is nice, but the ability to break the opposing offense with steals and blocks is more important than efficiency alone. Given that officials have been unwilling to control the physical contact that was supposed to be stripped from the game this season, Florida’s physicality is that much more menacing.

Why they might not: When under greatest game pressure, which hasn’t developed often, Florida becomes almost wholly reliant on Scottie Wilbekin to make the offense go. This is not an awful thing, because Wilbekin is a capable creator and not averse to that responsibility. For instance, in the final eight minutes at Kentucky, it was essentially a matter of give it to Scottie and get out of the way. But the Gators might not have another option if that is suppressed. None of the team’s wings is the kind of guy likely to create his own shot in a late-clock situation, and center Patric Young, while measurably improved with his jump-hook, is a poor foul shooter. If the Gators go down, it will be an offensive issue.

2. Kentucky

Why they might win: Nobody in this tournament has more answers. In fact, this Kentucky team has more answers than any team Calipari has coached, ever. He had Marcus Camby, Derrick Rose, John Wall, Demarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist — but he never had so many capable offensive players on the same team at the same time. These Wildcats can score from all five positions in nearly all their rotations, which forces defenses to play honestly — and that opens up room in the lane for the best of the scorers, power forward Julius Randle, to punish defenders with drives to his left hand.

They’ve become far more team-oriented in the past three weekends, from the SEC Tournament through the NCAA Midwest Regional. The change in forward James Young has been most notable, as he has traded volume shooting for precise shot-selection and become the same danger to opponents he once was to the Cats.

Why they won’t: It was impressive to see Kentucky overcome the absence of center Willie Cauley-Stein (ankle injury) to defeat Michigan in the Midwest final. But UM does not play through its center spot. The Wolverines were able to bother the Cats by involving UK freshman center Dakari Johnson in pick-and-rolls, but it always was unlikely that Wolverines senior Jordan Morgan would score 30. Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky? He could do that. How does Kentucky contend with that matchup? And if the Cats somehow survive and face Florida in the final, how do they find a way to defeat a team that went 3-0 in their season series?

3. Wisconsin

Why they might win: This is the best pure offensive team left in the tournament. Not the team with the best weapons, although it is closer to Kentucky in that department than NBA mock drafts would tell you. Ben Brust might not be an NBA prospect, but leave him open for a few trips down the court and see where that leaves you. Probably nine points behind. Kaminsky throttled two high-level Arizona defenders, showing an expected low-post strength against 7-footer Kaleb Tarczewski and showing too much size for 6-8 Aaron Gordon.

Wisconsin is almost demonic in its ability to trick Kaminsky open on the perimeter. There are some conventional pick-and-pops, but what killed Arizona were sets on which Kaminski would begin to dive toward the low post, then reverse course toward the 3-point line just as one of the guards began to drive toward the lane. The big man is trapped in that situation; help to contain the drive or recover toward Kaminsky. The instinct is to stay home and stop the drive; Kaminski scored some of his biggest baskets off those sets.

Why they won’t: Although the Badgers have played some great defense in this tournament, this isn’t a great defensive team. It’s hard enough to slow Kentucky if that’s your starting point: Ask Louisville and Wichita, which ranked among the nation’s best. If the Badgers can get through the Kentucky game, they’ll have a shot at taking down the Gators, and not because they did it before. Florida didn’t have Wilbekin in that game, and that’s often cited as a qualifier for the result. But Kaminsky wasn’t yet this player then, either.

4. Connecticut

Why they could win it: Shabazz Napier has been there, done that. Isn’t that what they say? He is not the only reason UConn still is alive in this tournament, but he’s the best reason. Napier is the singular star of this Final Four. Not the best NBA prospect, although why anyone would rate Syracuse’s Tyler Ennis ahead of him is hard to figure. But certainly the best college player.

Napier already is an NCAA champion from his freshman year, when he played a key role in the Huskies’ 2011 title. But if he can carry this team to a title, he could be a UConn legend like no other.

Why they won’t: It was so important to UConn’s regional final victory that Michigan State capitulated in the second half. The Spartans were shockingly content to become a jumpshooting team. That was somewhat about excellent scouting from the UConn coaches and execution of the gameplan by the players. It was more about how MSU handled the moment. UConn won’t get that kind of cooperation here.